orbit

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As tens of thousands of satellites are launched into orbit over the next several years, operators will need to buy a lot of semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Voyager 2 needed more than nine and a half years just to fly past the planet, without attempting to enter orbit.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The burn took the Orion spacecraft out of Earth orbit as the four astronauts aboard aim to travel the more than 200,000 miles to the Moon.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Musk plans to put AI data centers in orbit, believing they will be cheaper than terrestrial data centers in a few years.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Not only was the first woman in space, but two space capsules were in orbit at the same time.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson